Compressor: How To Chain Jobs

When you chain jobs,it will reduce the time you need
to compress your items. This merges as much work as possible into a
batch. Compressor will then manage the jobs for you. Job chaining will
let Compressor send the tasks to other jobs in the chain. This keeps
compressor from having to process the same jobs over again. The steps to
job chaining are listed below.

Tools and Materials Needed

Test Movie to be chained

Compressor

Step 1: Getting a Job to Chain

You can use a test movie that you have as the job, and type in apple
pro res 422. Pro res 422 will be the base setting. 422 for Interlace
material high quality 10 bit video uncompressed will be the apple pro
res that you drag to the top of the screen next to your test movie. You
do not have to mess with any of the other settings, but if you would
like to turn the frame controls on, that is optional. That may make it
better for you. You can also choose the video settings if you would like
to. As far as the apple pro res settings are concerned, you will want
to leave them as they are.

Step 2: Chaining

Now that you have the apple pro res in there, you are ready to chain
it. You will want to click on the job to select it. Go up to the Job tab
and select New Job with Target Outlet. You should get the new target
output with a chain symbol. This shows you that it is chaining the
output of the test movie to the encoding of the pro res. This means that
the major foundation of the encode in the apple pro res is already
taken care of. When it starts to encode the chain item, the base will
already be complete from the apple pro res. As the encoding process
continues, it is actually sped up.

Step 3: Chain Job Settings

You can now put the settings you prefer in the chain job. If you have
preset settings, you can go over those settings. Choose the settings
you want by dragging them up to the chain job area at the top of the
screen. Remember this area is indicated by the chain link symbol. You
should now have your settings and your apple pro res. These are chained
jobs. Select the chain jobs and the apple pro res and then hit submit,
and in the window that pops up hit Submit again. This will bring up your
batch monitor.

You can also set up your program to have the batch monitor in your
Preferences. This will allow the batch monitor to come up automatically
when you submit batches. You will see the status bar as the batch
monitor encodes the job. Once the encoding is complete, it will show
Successful. You can have these set up to output to your desktop. You
will see the apple pro res and the original movie icons on the desktop.